Comments on: LG DVD Recorder RH7624W – Review

By: James

James — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:47:47 +0000

I’ve personally stopped using this device. It got SO irritating!

I’ve tried upgrading the firmware, but that never worked.

I reckon, if you can afford it, try and buy a new, better device. I’m surprised you’ve had yours for 8 years now. That’s quite impressive for most technology devices these days.

By: Zarina

Zarina — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:38:59 +0000

The power button on player does not work anymore. I have to use a remote now to put it on. My DVD Recorder RH1999h also while recording would just stop and record stop and record. When I set the timer, it will also not record.

Can anyone advise what I can do. Should I get rid of it and get a newer model OR should I bite the dust and take it to agents in Montague Gardens.

I have not yet attempted to open up my recorder. Should I clean the inside. I have not done so since purchase back in December 2001.

Please advise.
Thanks

By: emmcee

emmcee — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:26:18 +0000

Hi Zarina
I’m not sure about the timer recording issue as I have not had that problem.
As for the hard drive, it sounds to me like it’s packing up. I put in a 500GB HD in mine with no issues. Just make sure it’s and IDE drive. takes like 15mins.

By: Zarina

Zarina — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:51:34 +0000

I have mine now for 8 years now. I use it to record my tv stuff when I am not able to watch it live. It gives me pleasure to watch at snail pace whenever I am not too busy. However, for the past few weeks now I notice that the hard drive is making a clicking sound.
Also, the other major issue I have is that I set the timer to record something but then it does not switch off as per usual, I have to then manually press stopped using the Power button only and then I lose everything I have just recorded.
Can anyone advise further.

By: Emmcee

Emmcee — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:11:58 +0000

Hi Fanus, I’ll give them a try. Thanks for replying.
Emmcee

By: fanus Van Coller

fanus Van Coller — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:03:05 +0000

Hi Emmcee I managed to have my problem solved, I took my recorder to Craighall TV Services, on the corned of Buckingham & Jan Smuts ave in Craighall Park. All the problems were repaired and had no further problems thus far.

By: Emmcee

Emmcee — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:17:49 +0000

Hi, I’m also getting disc errors on any disc I insert. Tried cleaning the lens, no luck.Anybody found a solution yet?
Also trying to copy my stuff from my HD to my PC. Does not see the files. Is Linux format? Please help.

By: UrBaN

UrBaN — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:27:16 +0000

Hi James, Not sure why your LG written discs won’t play on any other machine – had no problems with this on my side. Excuse the possible stupid question – you do finalise your discs first before playing in other machines? I have a whole range of extra codecs installed which also allows me to view blu-ray rips on media player so that may also be a reason why it plays the LG recordings easily. I had a suspicion that the file format may be Linux. Will have to set up something to test it – the drive is already almost full with my beloved rugby games and really don’t want to have to write it all to discs. I assume the DSTV HD PVR is also linux based – I wanted to try the same for it. I am determined to find a way of copying the content!

By: James

James — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:37:11 +0000

First things first, you are WAY ahead of me. Any time I’ve tried to write a movie to CD, I can’t get it to play ANYWHERE other than another LG DVD player.

How on EARTH did you get it to play in Windows Media Player???

Regarding seeing the drive in Windows, from your findings, my guess would be that the OS on the DVD recorder is either Linux or proprietary so the File System isn’t recognised by Windows.

DEFINITELY just a guess, but have you considered hooking it up to a Linux machine to see if you can’t read it?

A topic for a different time, but if you don’t have a Linux machine lying around, you could try creating a Virtual PC using “MS Virtual PC” or “Sun Virtual Box” or even “VMWare” (the last one being paid software I believe).

By: UrBaN

UrBaN — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:04:45 +0000

Hi, When I record a widescreen show on this DVD recorder it play back widescreen fine. When I write the same show to DVD and play back once again fine – BUT, when I play that same disc on my PC in Media Player it is squashed to 4.3. Why is that? Also what file format does LG use for the HDD? I took the drive out and connected it to my PC. My PC read the drive but did not want to show the drive as available. Under PC management it shows the drive is there and working properly but shows a blank space where it would normally show if the drive is Fat32 or NTFS. I wanted to copy my recoridng onto my PC. Any suggestions?